Morpholio Board is democratizing the design process by giving enthusiasts access to the same mobile resources and tools that professionals use.

Mood boards have long been an essential part of the creative process for interior designers, and in recent years online tools like Pinterest have invited a new audience of design enthusiasts to the party. Now there's Morpholio Board, a brand-new app for iPhone and iPad whose big-name collaborators include Herman Miller, Knoll, and Porcelanosa. The app enables anyone to design rooms with access to endless resources, which include a library of images, items clipped from the web, and, of course, Pinterest.

"This is a tool created with and for the interior design world that we absolutely hope will be co-opted by pinners, bloggers, design enthusiasts, and creatives of all types," co-creator Anna Kenoff says in a press release.

Morpholio Apps

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Here are some of Morpholio Board's tools:

- A Web Clipper, which allows you to pull images from anywhere online, including from Pinterest.

- The Gallery, which is a curated library of more than 1,000 design products, including furniture, materials, plumbing fixtures, and more.

- An Item List, which includes all the objects you clip from the gallery or web.

- Conference Table, a layout option that allows you to keep objects in the margins for easy access.

- Backgrounds, which include graph paper, cork, and a wide range of colors. Kenoff tells us that another option is to take a picture of your room with your iPhone or iPad and then make it your background so that you can try out different decor options in the actual space you're designing.

The app offers "easy, intuitive set of tools to make boards like pros make," Kenoff says, so you don't need an advanced degree and years of experience to understand them.

Here are a few examples of boards you can create with the app:

Morpholio Apps

Morpholio Apps

As for actually buying the products you choose, there's no e-commerce component to the app, but it does keep track of your picks. "This is not a marketplace for the products, but it keeps links of everything you gather," Kenoff says. "So, you can email yourself a list of all the items, with links." And when you finished boards, you can export them to social media, Kenoff says.